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• ARTH 311X: Medieval Monsters

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: This course investigates the visual culture of medieval monsters and the monstrous. Dragons, gargoyles, sea monsters, cephalophores, sciapods, aliens, terrors, and other wonders will be considered in their social, political, and religious contexts. We will examine how monsters participated in constructs of cultural identity, gender, race, class, and ethnicity in medieval Europe and explore what images of monsters can reveal about fears of the "other,? shifting social hierarchies, warfare, disease, death, and other anxieties. In lieu of exams, students will imagine and create their own medieval monsters related to course topics.
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• ARTH 340: Internship Education Experience (3:1:3).

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: An internship education experience to provide training for the Art History major in a professional environment. A maximum of 6 hours of internship education may be applied toward the Bachelor of Arts degree. Notes: Offered in spring and as needed. Prerequisites: ARTH 175 and ARTH 176 or special permission of the Chair of Fine Arts.
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• ARTH 341: Ancient Greek and Roman Art (3).

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: Study of ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture from the Bronze Age through the Late Roman Empire. Sculpture, painting, public and private architecture, and small-scale arts will be considered within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. Contemporary issues related to the preservation and conservation of antiquities, such as looting, forgeries, the art market, and international debates about ownership, will also be explored. Notes: Offered periodically.
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• ARTH 341H: Ancient Greek and Roman Art (3).

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: Study of ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture from the Bronze Age through the Late Roman Empire. Sculpture, painting, public and private architecture, and small-scale arts will be considered within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. Contemporary issues related to the preservation and conservation of antiquities, such as looting, forgeries, the art market, and international debates about ownership, will also be explored. Notes: Offered periodically.
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• ARTH 342: Medieval European Art and Architecture (3).

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: Study of medieval art and architecture of Europe from the Early Christian through the Gothic periods. The architecture of great churches, sculpture, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, textiles, and metalwork are considered within their social, historical, and religious contexts. Topics such as medieval visuality, cross-cultural exchange, monasticism and pilgrimage, and the technical development of Gothic architecture will be explored. Notes: Offered periodically.
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• ARTH 342H: Medieval European Art and Architecture (3).

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: Study of medieval art and architecture of Europe from the Early Christian through the Gothic periods. The architecture of great churches, sculpture, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, textiles, and metalwork are considered within their social, historical, and religious contexts. Topics such as medieval visuality, cross-cultural exchange, monasticism and pilgrimage, and the technical development of Gothic architecture will be explored. Notes: Offered periodically.
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• ARTH 344: European Renaissance Art (3).

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: Study of the art and architecture of Italy and Northern Europe during the Renaissance period. Notes: Offered periodically.
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• ARTH 346: Global Baroque (3).

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: This course examines Baroque and Rococo art from a global perspective. It addresses the origins of Baroque art and architecture in Italy and its spread across Europe to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria, as well as the circulation of the style beyond Europe to places such as India, China, the Philippines, Turkey, and the Americas. Themes such as colonialism and westernization, global trade networks and commerce, religion and religious reform, intercultural dialogues, and the hybridization of local styles with international artistic currents in the 17th and 18th centuries will be explored. Notes: Offered periodically.
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• ARTH 347: Art in the Age of Revolution (3).

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: This course examines the art and architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries, concentrating on the years 1750 to 1850. It investigates artistic responses to significant upheavals including the Industrial Revolution (1760-1820), the American Revolution (1776), and three French Revolutions (1789, 1839 and 1848). Major western artistic movements like Neoclassicism and Romanticism will be considered in relation to globalizing tendencies in the visual arts and related social, political, and economic issues (e.g., colonialism, modernization, international trade and diplomacy, and race and ethnicity). Notes: Offered periodically.
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• ARTH 348: Modernism (3).

  3.00 Credits

  Winthrop University

  
  Description: Study of the art and architecture of Europe and America from 1850 through 1960. Notes: Offered once a year. Prerequisites: ARTH176 or permission of instructor.
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